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Avishai Cohen: Triveni II

Read "Triveni II" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Facendo seguito a Introducing Triveni, il trombettista israeliano (ma di stanza a New York) Avishai Cohen si misura nuovamente con la dimensione del trio nel suo nuovo lavoro Triveni II: il risultato è un sincero e ben confezionato album di estrazione hard bop con contaminazioni contemporanee, alla cui registrazione hanno preso parte il contrabbassista e collaboratore di lunga data Omer Avital e Nasheet Waits alla batteria. Il materiale sonoro si compone principalmente di brani originali con l'aggiunta di una manciata ...

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Third World Love: Songs and Portraits

Read "Songs and Portraits" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il titolo del disco, Songs and Portraits, sembra quasi anonimo, così abusato, storpiato, variamente declinato. Poi si ascolta l'album e la minaccia di anonimato scompare. Innanzi tutto perché il gruppo ha un'identità talmente peculiare, fatta di solisti identificabili all'istante, che è impossibile non riconoscerla; poi perché l'apporto compositivo contribuisce, in questo come nei lavori precedenti, a conferire originalità ed eccentricità all'ensemble. Third World Love è una band attiva dal 2002, ormai assurta allo status piuttosto ingombrante di supergruppo, almeno nella ...

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Album Review

Avishai Cohen: Duende

Read "Duende" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Avishai Cohen is a distinctive player: his raw energy, deft and fluid fretting style and tough, forceful right hand combine in one of the most readily recognizable double bass sounds in contemporary music. He's brought this sound to collaborations with many leading musicians including pianists Chick Corea and Brad Mehldau, and drummer Mark Guiliana, and has produced a dozen albums as leader. Duende, Cohen's third album for Blue Note, is something of a new departure: a duo record with up-and-coming ...

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Luca Necciari - Matteo Addabbo - Avishai Cohen - Francesco Petreni: Progetto original

Read "Progetto original" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Un'interpretazione che racchiude la sensibilità artistica di due diverse culture ed una fonte d'ispirazione tutta italiana, questa è la formula con cui si presenta Progetto Original. Per l'intero album la formazione rimane compatta e ben equilibrata. Gli assoli sono ben eseguiti e ben distribuiti e colpiscono per spontaneità ed intuizione artistica. In particolare, le improvvisazioni di Cohen si fanno interessanti nei brani di maggior trasporto emotivo dove emerge l'influenza e l'attaccamento a certe sonorità assimilate da Miles Davis e Chet ...

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Interview

Avishai Cohen: Mystical Changes

Read "Avishai Cohen: Mystical Changes" reviewed by Adriana Carcu


Israeli bassist and vocalist Avishai Cohen, together with pianist Omri Mor and drummer Amir Bresler, recently participated at Romania's Garana Jazz Festival with a two-hour act of electrifying musical virtuosity. Most of the songs the trio performed are featured on Cohen's recent release, Seven Seas (EMI, 2011). This interview took place before a show that would become memorable in the history of the festival, for the artists and audience alike. All About Jazz: You've been touring throughout Europe ...

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Album Review

Avishai Cohen: Seven Seas

Read "Seven Seas" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Over the past few years, bassist Avishai Cohen has become recognized as one of the most creative musicians of current times. A fertile composer of the highest rank, he has, among other things, enriched and expanded the genre he works in: a master of the upright bass, an improviser of not-so-often-seen genius, and a bandleader with a rich and kaleidoscopic history. Seven Seas is another exceptional chapter in the Cohen catalog, one that showcases a willingness to ...

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Live Review

Home Away From Home: Avishai Cohen in Paris

Read "Home Away From Home: Avishai Cohen in Paris" reviewed by David Miller


Avishai CohenAlhambraParis, FranceNovember 26, 2009 Hypnotic. Mesmerizing. Religious. These three adjectives come to mind when reflecting on Avishai Cohen's concert at Alhambra in Paris, the last of a three-night engagement at the intimate venue close to Place de la République. A sorrowful piano/percussion duo--Shai Maestro's weeping piano accompanied by Itamar Doari's melodic percussion--set the stage for what was to be a celebration of not just the talents of the five musicians in ...


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